Abstract: Particle scattering is suppressed only by controlling the gate valve in opening the gate valve with the internal pressure of the chamber being matched to the atmospheric pressure.

Abstract: Particle scattering is suppressed only by controlling the gate valve in opening the gate valve with the internal pressure of the chamber being matched to the atmospheric pressure.

Abstract: {Technical Problem} To provide a gate valve that can control the amount of squeeze of sealing material according to each of situations, that is, under the in-manufacturing or during vacuum-maintaining state; thereby, the invented gate valve is capable of suppressing deterioration of its sealing material and lengthening the service life of the sealing material used therein. {Solution to Problem} The gate valve 100 of the embodiment has the control device 11, which is comprised of the equipment control unit 12 that transmits an instruction either an in-manufacturing CLOSE instruction or a FULL CLOSE instruction and the storage means 13 that stores position date that corresponds to each of such instructions. The control device 11 receives either of such instructions and generates the position signal referring to the corresponding position data.

Abstract: {Summary} {Technical Problem} To provide a gate valve that can control the amount of squeeze of sealing material according to each of situations, that is, under the in-manufacturing or during vacuum-maintaining state; thereby, the invented gate valve is capable of suppressing deterioration of its sealing material and lengthening the service life of the sealing material used therein. {Solution to Problem} The gate valve 100 of the embodiment has the control device 11, which is comprised of the equipment control unit 12 that transmits an instruction either an in-manufacturing CLOSE instruction or a FULL CLOSE instruction and the storage means 13 that stores position date that corresponds to each of such instructions. The control device 11 receives either of such instructions and generates the position signal referring to the corresponding position data.

Abstract: A storage module is constituted by a plurality of storage cells housed respectively in resin cases. A storage device includes a flexible tube that is welded to the respective cases and connected to the respective storage cells in order to discharge a gas from the respective storage cells, and a valve that opens and shuts off discharge of the gas from the tube. As a result, a gas vent pipe structure exhibiting a superior sealing property is realized.

Abstract: The object of the present invention is to make it easier to use an existing data created by certain software programs on a different software program or use the data for different purposes. The object is achieved by the process including the following steps: analyzing an existing data created by a specific software object; converting the data into an instruction sequence that the software object has executed to create the aforementioned data; converting the instruction sequence into a function describing expression of natural language understandable to the user; obtaining semantic information from the function describing expression; and creating a request describing expression by adding a meaning to the function describing expression. The request describing expression is described in natural language, which contains all the information required to reproduce the original data.

Abstract: The present invention provides a natural language interface having versatility for allowing unified operation of different software objects and flexibility for appropriately processing an input even when it is a natural language expression of a request, desire or intension of a user. According to the present invention, a character string of natural language entered is parsed as an expression of the user's request, and a software object most suitable for carrying out a process corresponding to the request is selected. A function description expression for making the software object carry out the aforementioned process is intermediately created. Then, the function description expression is converted into an instruction sequence that can be executed by an OS or a program.

Abstract: Data on the characteristic point on the contours of unit patterns such as characters, marks, patterns and/or the like are stored in a memory. The data are then read out as needed and then subjected to magnification-changing processing such as enlargement or reduction, rotation processing and/or the like. The resulting unit pattern data are then arranged in accordance with a given layout so as to establish desired positional relationship among the unit patterns. The thus-arranged pattern data are then converted into one-dimensional time series data so as to ON-OFF control the scanning and exposing means of a one-dimensional output unit. The above method permits to process a pattern in a single step. The specification also discloses a system useful in the practice of the above method.

Abstract: A method for compressing the data of character images primarily for a font set for kanji (Chinese character) photo-type-setting characterized by the steps of dividing up an original picture image into a plurality of partial picture images, identifying the contour lines in each of the partial picture images by finding a start point and an end point for each of the contour line segments as well as those points which characterize the configuration of each contour line segment, connecting the start points with the corresponding end points so as to determine a group of closed-loop line segments as an aggregate of the contour lines and to represent the original picture image, and storing the date of this original picture in the form of a group of closed-loop line segments in a memory in a highly compressed form through elimination of coordinate point data which may be identified by less redundant information.

Abstract: A method for compressing data of two-value picture image such as an original character pattern for a phototype setting by an electronic computer, wherein an original picture image is divided into a plurality of divisional picture images by division lines and then intersections between the division lines and outlines of a character area of each divisional picture image are detected to determine start and end points, and wherein, while the outlines of the character area of each divisional picture image are traced from the start points to the end points, characteristic points are selected, and then the outlines of the character areas of the adjacent divisional picture images are connected at the start and the end points.

Abstract: Disclosed is a method for compressing data which is derived by tracing the contour line of a character pattern or a symbol. Normally such a contour line consists of at least one closed-loop line having straight portions and curved portions. A multiplicity of sampling points are selected along the contour line for the purpose of representing the contour line with these sampling points and those sampling points located along a straight or lightly curved portion of the contour line are disregarded and those located along a curved portion of the contour line are retained because the former have relatively less influence on the representation of the original character or symbol pattern than the latter.